Infrastructure Challenges Mean More Small Projects Likely Required, Not HugePart of that challenge, according to further industry quotes in the original, are the usually cited suspects: Infrastructure and transmission shortcomings requiring further investment. Both of which could mean that it may be easier to meet that target with smaller grid-tied projects in the 20 MW range rather than the headline grabbing, exclamation pointed, world's largest projects--several of which, in the solar thermal out in the Mojave Desert variety, are in the final permitting stages in the state.

Nevertheless, the challenge must be met. Though California already has a remarkably clean energy mix, fossil fuels included, compared to other parts of the United States, in many ways the nation needs California to continue to lead on renewable energy and provide the collective kick in the arse so sorely needed.

Let's just hope the new target stands though and the scare tactic ballot initiative against it, coming up for vote in two months, doesn't derail the whole thing.

Renewable Energy Is The Present & Future, Full StopAfter all, more renewable energy isn't about green jobs or protecting the environment. It's about facing up to the global energy, climate and environmental reality: Oil is done (not today or tomorrow but there are supply and prices coming just over the horizon, even according to the IEA), coal is done if we want to maintain temperatures and climatic conditions conducive to California still being the orchard and garden to the nation, without adjusting to this now and future reality the economy as a whole, not just that subsection labeled 'green' is in for an even greater world of hurt than it currently feels.